All about password recovery and practical cryptography

In one of the first notes in this blog I have already spoken about the encryption details used in different versions of Microsoft Office. Certainly it was interesting for me whether it is possible to apply technology of general-purpose computations on video cards (CUDA) to speed up the process of key recovery for MS Office. The most important bottleneck was the RC4 algorithm which is basic in almost all Office versions encryption. In the Internet I saw responses that RC4 implementation on CUDA was almost more slowly than on CPU which meant that RC4 algorithm did not fit for optimized GPU implementation. Read more »